Revisions log for Answer #2973
This is the answer to the question What to choose between a French balcony or a private balcony?
Revision 1
The fixed elements on the bottom are silly to clean.
But that applies equally to the glazed version of the French balcony.
With floor-to-ceiling windows, I would always make the bottom fixed. The advantage is that you can put something on the floor right in front of the window in the children's room and still have the window open...
Our daughter likes to sit on her soft cushion in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and look outside. That doesn't work with regular windows.
But getting back to the question: although I am a fan of lots of windows, I think there are a bit too many in the exterior views. It would be optically calmer if the exterior windows on the top floor were designed like regular windows. Then the view of the upper floors would be closer to the view of the first floor.